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Alex Samoylenko
  • Alex Samoylenko
  • March 4, 2025

What’s Inside Broadcom’s Emulex Secure Fibre Channel HBA

Quantum computing is evolving fast, and traditional encryption won’t be enough to keep your data safe. Broadcom ’s Emulex Secure Fibre Channel HBA integrates post-quantum cryptography (PQC) to ensure end-to-end encryption without performance trade-offs. Learn how it protects your critical infrastructure in our latest article.
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Andrea Mauro
  • Andrea Mauro
  • March 14, 2019

Storage Controllers in VMware vSphere

Storage controllers are virtual environment tools essential for locating and accessing both block-based devices and SCSI devices. Storage controllers in VMware vSphere virtualization platform can operate with different storage controllers, varying in types, purposes, and usages. A wide range of functional capacities allows you to establish storage controller compatibility, choose configurations, and process SCSI emulation and paravirtualization. Use a storage controller as best suited for your preferred OS!
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Jon Toigo
  • Jon Toigo
  • August 22, 2017

The Pleasant Fiction of Software-Defined Storage

Whether you have heard it called software-defined storage, referring to a stack of software used to dedicate an assemblage of commodity storage hardware to a virtualized workload, or hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI), referring to a hardware appliance with a software-defined storage stack and maybe a hypervisor pre-configured and embedded, this “revolutionary” approach to building storage was widely hailed as your best hope for bending the storage cost curve once and for all.  With storage spending accounting for a sizable percentage – often more than 50% — of a medium-to-large organization’s annual IT hardware budget, you probably welcomed the idea of an SDS/HCI solution when the idea surfaced in the trade press, in webinars and at conferences and trade shows a few years ago.
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